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About The IGF

IndieGames.com is presented by the UBM TechWeb Game Network, which runs the Independent Games Festival & Summit every year at Game Developers Conference. The company (producer of the Game Developers Conference series, Gamasutra.com and Game Developer magazine) established the Independent Games Festival in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.

If you were a fan of Ghost Trick, you're probably going to do a few backflips over this one. A browser-based title that will have you playing as a ghost intent on figuring out exactly who murdered him, Why Am I Dead? will have you possessing random hotel guests and using them as part of your investigative efforts. It's certainly not perfect, but Why Am I Dead? is brilliant enough to be worth a few confused hours this late Sunday evening.